So, the effect this has is that everyone starts looking out for themselves and gets very defensive. There's no giving or taking of criticism, even if constructive, because, it all could lead to getting blamed for something that isn't the teachers fault. And so on.
Sounds a lot like descriptions of American society in general. The USA seem to push CYA as their new way of life.
As my MBP's display is slowly dying due to a broken display frame I'm considering the same thing - however I can't afford a second monitor. Back in the day when everyone used PS/2 and D-sub I could've just stuck a KVM switch between the MBP and my desktop computer but when I looked around a few weeks ago I couldn't find anything that works with USB and DVI.
Did I just happen to overlook all modern KVM switches, do they have a different name nowadays or do I have to find some other way of sharing my peripherals?
Does any browser on the market today fail on invalid XHTML? (by "fail" I mean refusing to parse the page and render it)
Mozilla Firefox, since about forever. Having the entire browser window be a yellow screen of death is a fairly well known issue as Firefox's entire UI is rendered from the XML-based XUL (which allows fun things like nesting it via chrome://browser/content/browser.xul) and an error in some XUL file means the GUI isn't valid XML anymore.
There is a German Pirate Party but it never took off like the Swedish one. Might actually be a geographic thing; Germany has small towns all over the place while I think the Swedes tend more towards fewer, bigger cities. As small parties like the Pirates usually only are up for election in the most densely populated areas due to resource constraints, they're less effective when many people are not in those areas.
Also, the Stasi was all about giving your private data to others and StudiVZ is really good at that. I don't know if they changed much recently but they have been known to be a convenient place to gather marketable mail addresses for ages. I think some people even had their spiders directly query the SQL server for a while.
Actually, it could. You only need to add "and you don't oppose the Basic Law" and all illegal parties are out. I mean, look at the problems they have with the NPD - they're not anticonstitutional enough to be banned, even though their ideas are scary.
As for private websites like StudiVZ: They can lock out whoever they want; the law can't really touch them (at least not without getting revised). The proper instrument to use would be bad PR, in this case.
and we are now the fourth, soon the third largest party in Sweden with over 42,000 members.
...and one of the reasons why I'm currently learning Swedish, just in case. Seriously, the fact that the Pirate Party is doing well in Sweden (it never really took off in Germany) and that the various anti-harsh-IP-laws groups are actually getting somewhere (cf. members of other parties talking about decriminalizing filesharing) is a really big incentive to move over there.
Okay, the fact that they scored second on an internet speed survey a couple months ago might also be a factor... but the less-insane politics are the main one. I mean, a country where the people can actually influence politics! You don't see that every day.
Actually, as far as I know there's more to the name than just "it's funny".
Firtsly, let's look at Sweden, where the whole thing began. In Sweden, there's an MPAA front called Antipiratbyrån (The Antipiracy Bureau). In response, an organization called Piratbyrån (The Piracy Bureau) was formed; as "antipiracy" apparently involved making copyright law ever harsher, lobbying against such harsher laws would have to be "antiantipiracy" - or piracy. Thus, pro-consumer IP lobbyists would logically be pirates. (It must also be stated, however, that Piratbyrån used to be tightly connected with The Pirate Bay.)
The Swedish Piratpartiet (Pirate Party) is not affiliated with Piratbyrån or TPB but as far as I know, their name is based on similar principles: If things they believe people should be allowed to do are classified as "piracy" then they effectively do represent "pirates". It also creates attention - by officially naming themselves after a derogative name for copyright infringers, they show that there are enough people who don't agree with modern copyright law to form a political party (and after the TPB verdict that party is larger than half of the parties currently in the Riksdag).
It's called "clod computing". In clod computing, not only the applications but also your machine's RAM reside in cyberspace. As you have to send everything your computer ever processes to Google, lack of bandwidth will inevitably slow down your computer.
I find 1680x840 to be adequate. And the twitch I was referring to is a fairly large one - I can still position the pointer precisely with smaller movements. However, I don't need to move my hand to reach any part of the screen, which is nice.
I've always found Microsoft't hardware division to deserve better than to be lumped together with their software division. Except for a fairly crappy router I've only encountered decent hardware from them.
The Mighty Mouse is strictly hit-or-miss. You either love it or hate it. I think it works very well and the scroll ball is extremely nice; in fact I bought a Mighty for my Linux box before I ever owned a Mac. However, many people I know have no idea how anyone could ever get the thing to work properly.
Some Apple products are great (I'm partial to their notebooks, which also tend to be more cost-compatitive than the desktops) and some are rather questionable (Apple TV). The Mighty Mouse is all over the scale, depending on person. Even among Mac users.
Does Logitech offer a flat mouse? I can't stand mice that are too tall. The old Logitech Optical Mouse was somewhat acceptable but lately the only usable normal-sized mice I've encountered were the Mighty Mouse and the Razer Krait (which is what I use now as the Mighty is no good for gaming and cleaning the scroll ball gets old after a while).
I'm starting to prefer the Krait for regular work, too - it's very sensitive so a slight twitch of the fingers moves the pointer halfway across the screen. That's very nice if you have a steady hand and good hand-eye coordination.
Depends. Quicksort is manageable, but once you get to stuff like clever-quicksort vs. radix-exchange sort vs. quick-weak-heapsort vs. relaxed-weak-heapsort and the theory behind them things get more interesting. It's not like quicksort is adequate for everything. Or like every sorting algorithm is trivial.
Which sorting algorithms does one need to be able to implement? With or without reference? I'm not saying that people shouldn't at least have known the theory behind some algorithms at one point but "you should know sorting algorithms if you want to be a programmer" is very vague.
Actually, Led Zeppelin do sound rather dated today. It's all been done before... by them.
I recently decided to get those old Sailor Moon episodes out and watch the entire show (I freely admit I like corny stuff like that). The show immediately struck me with how it consistently managed to fulfill every cliché it could get its hands on - until I realized that many of those elements are clichés because Sailor Moon has been extensively copied (even though it didn't start the genre it did boost its popularity). Back in the 90s Sailor Moon was more original than it looks like today.
The same thing can happen to bands: If you define the sound of a gernre then after a while your music will sound less original as you sound like everyone does - because everyone is trying to sound like you. Of course the band can still try to take their sound in another direction than the rest of the genre.
The same applies to video games (where "look at this unique party-game thingie" quickly turned into "yet another WarioWare clone, yawn"), books (yes, LoTR is chock full of todays' clichés) and everything related to art. Of course it's not entirely fair to punish the groundbreakers for being copied a lot but that's life for you.
Note: Yes, the "resistor" in there is intentional. The Mayans messed up their calculations and wanted to use resistors instead of capacitors. Their faulty energy physics were one of the factors invonved in the downfall of their civilization. (In contrast, the European settlers made not a single wrong assumption about how to counteract solar flares messing with the electrical infractructure.)
Actually, this is fairly sound. Archaeologists recently decyphered a Mayan text that details the need for large, blocky capacitors in 2012. The text also goes on about how those capacitors would be about half as high as a man and require completely new materials, either in cast or hammered form. It was all very professional.
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Man, Generic.dx!bm easily was the most terrible virus in existence. Sometimes I still wake up at night, having had a nightmare about Generic.dx!bm.
They really should make Generic.dx!bm their number one, for its sheer awfulness.
I don't know if that's a typo but I think it's a nice way of referring to people who do only think of the children.
Sounds a lot like descriptions of American society in general. The USA seem to push CYA as their new way of life.
Thanks, I'll look into it.
As my MBP's display is slowly dying due to a broken display frame I'm considering the same thing - however I can't afford a second monitor. Back in the day when everyone used PS/2 and D-sub I could've just stuck a KVM switch between the MBP and my desktop computer but when I looked around a few weeks ago I couldn't find anything that works with USB and DVI.
Did I just happen to overlook all modern KVM switches, do they have a different name nowadays or do I have to find some other way of sharing my peripherals?
Mozilla Firefox, since about forever. Having the entire browser window be a yellow screen of death is a fairly well known issue as Firefox's entire UI is rendered from the XML-based XUL (which allows fun things like nesting it via chrome://browser/content/browser.xul) and an error in some XUL file means the GUI isn't valid XML anymore.
That nugget is "Facebook isn't German". StudiVZ is pretty much a Facebook clone; IIRC they even used to look like Facebook in the beginning.
There is a German Pirate Party but it never took off like the Swedish one. Might actually be a geographic thing; Germany has small towns all over the place while I think the Swedes tend more towards fewer, bigger cities. As small parties like the Pirates usually only are up for election in the most densely populated areas due to resource constraints, they're less effective when many people are not in those areas.
Also, the Stasi was all about giving your private data to others and StudiVZ is really good at that. I don't know if they changed much recently but they have been known to be a convenient place to gather marketable mail addresses for ages. I think some people even had their spiders directly query the SQL server for a while.
Actually, it could. You only need to add "and you don't oppose the Basic Law" and all illegal parties are out. I mean, look at the problems they have with the NPD - they're not anticonstitutional enough to be banned, even though their ideas are scary.
As for private websites like StudiVZ: They can lock out whoever they want; the law can't really touch them (at least not without getting revised). The proper instrument to use would be bad PR, in this case.
...and one of the reasons why I'm currently learning Swedish, just in case. Seriously, the fact that the Pirate Party is doing well in Sweden (it never really took off in Germany) and that the various anti-harsh-IP-laws groups are actually getting somewhere (cf. members of other parties talking about decriminalizing filesharing) is a really big incentive to move over there.
Okay, the fact that they scored second on an internet speed survey a couple months ago might also be a factor... but the less-insane politics are the main one. I mean, a country where the people can actually influence politics! You don't see that every day.
I wouldn't go as far as calling the Goddard-Thorn theorem a law. Also, what do vector spaces have to do with German social networking sites?
Actually, as far as I know there's more to the name than just "it's funny".
Firtsly, let's look at Sweden, where the whole thing began. In Sweden, there's an MPAA front called Antipiratbyrån (The Antipiracy Bureau). In response, an organization called Piratbyrån (The Piracy Bureau) was formed; as "antipiracy" apparently involved making copyright law ever harsher, lobbying against such harsher laws would have to be "antiantipiracy" - or piracy. Thus, pro-consumer IP lobbyists would logically be pirates. (It must also be stated, however, that Piratbyrån used to be tightly connected with The Pirate Bay.)
The Swedish Piratpartiet (Pirate Party) is not affiliated with Piratbyrån or TPB but as far as I know, their name is based on similar principles: If things they believe people should be allowed to do are classified as "piracy" then they effectively do represent "pirates". It also creates attention - by officially naming themselves after a derogative name for copyright infringers, they show that there are enough people who don't agree with modern copyright law to form a political party (and after the TPB verdict that party is larger than half of the parties currently in the Riksdag).
The name is supposed to be placative like that.
It's called "clod computing". In clod computing, not only the applications but also your machine's RAM reside in cyberspace. As you have to send everything your computer ever processes to Google, lack of bandwidth will inevitably slow down your computer.
I find 1680x840 to be adequate. And the twitch I was referring to is a fairly large one - I can still position the pointer precisely with smaller movements. However, I don't need to move my hand to reach any part of the screen, which is nice.
That's right! Why use the LHC to create black holes when we can simply fetch one of those already flying around everywhere? Reduce, reuse, recycle.
I've always found Microsoft't hardware division to deserve better than to be lumped together with their software division. Except for a fairly crappy router I've only encountered decent hardware from them.
The Mighty Mouse is strictly hit-or-miss. You either love it or hate it. I think it works very well and the scroll ball is extremely nice; in fact I bought a Mighty for my Linux box before I ever owned a Mac. However, many people I know have no idea how anyone could ever get the thing to work properly.
Some Apple products are great (I'm partial to their notebooks, which also tend to be more cost-compatitive than the desktops) and some are rather questionable (Apple TV). The Mighty Mouse is all over the scale, depending on person. Even among Mac users.
Does Logitech offer a flat mouse? I can't stand mice that are too tall. The old Logitech Optical Mouse was somewhat acceptable but lately the only usable normal-sized mice I've encountered were the Mighty Mouse and the Razer Krait (which is what I use now as the Mighty is no good for gaming and cleaning the scroll ball gets old after a while).
I'm starting to prefer the Krait for regular work, too - it's very sensitive so a slight twitch of the fingers moves the pointer halfway across the screen. That's very nice if you have a steady hand and good hand-eye coordination.
Depends. Quicksort is manageable, but once you get to stuff like clever-quicksort vs. radix-exchange sort vs. quick-weak-heapsort vs. relaxed-weak-heapsort and the theory behind them things get more interesting. It's not like quicksort is adequate for everything. Or like every sorting algorithm is trivial.
Which sorting algorithms does one need to be able to implement? With or without reference? I'm not saying that people shouldn't at least have known the theory behind some algorithms at one point but "you should know sorting algorithms if you want to be a programmer" is very vague.
Actually, Led Zeppelin do sound rather dated today. It's all been done before... by them.
I recently decided to get those old Sailor Moon episodes out and watch the entire show (I freely admit I like corny stuff like that). The show immediately struck me with how it consistently managed to fulfill every cliché it could get its hands on - until I realized that many of those elements are clichés because Sailor Moon has been extensively copied (even though it didn't start the genre it did boost its popularity). Back in the 90s Sailor Moon was more original than it looks like today.
The same thing can happen to bands: If you define the sound of a gernre then after a while your music will sound less original as you sound like everyone does - because everyone is trying to sound like you. Of course the band can still try to take their sound in another direction than the rest of the genre.
The same applies to video games (where "look at this unique party-game thingie" quickly turned into "yet another WarioWare clone, yawn"), books (yes, LoTR is chock full of todays' clichés) and everything related to art. Of course it's not entirely fair to punish the groundbreakers for being copied a lot but that's life for you.
Yes, but it does the same to the local residents, which kind of defeats the point.
Note: Yes, the "resistor" in there is intentional. The Mayans messed up their calculations and wanted to use resistors instead of capacitors. Their faulty energy physics were one of the factors invonved in the downfall of their civilization. (In contrast, the European settlers made not a single wrong assumption about how to counteract solar flares messing with the electrical infractructure.)
Actually, this is fairly sound. Archaeologists recently decyphered a Mayan text that details the need for large, blocky capacitors in 2012. The text also goes on about how those capacitors would be about half as high as a man and require completely new materials, either in cast or hammered form. It was all very professional.
Stop hogging! No wonder the rest of us have supply problems.